The Early Years and the Shift Toward Abstraction Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mogens Andersen began his formal training at P. Rostrup Bøyesen's art school between 1933 and 1939. His first public appearance in the art world came in 1935 at the Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling. In those early years, his canvases held a different weight, focused on figure paintings rendered in earthy colours. He was drawn toward the ideas of French Modernism, a pull that would eventually lead him away from the human form and toward something more structural and rhythmic. The years following the Second World War…